This title presents luxurious treats for total indulgence: 135 irresistible recipes shown in 260 stunning photographs. You can discover the wonderful world of chocolate with this fabulous cookbook, containing recipes gathered from all over the world, sumptuously illustrated with over 260 beautiful photographs. It features a range of luxurious treats with classics such as Chocolate Profiteroles, Chocolate Truffles, Chocolate Pecan Torte and Mississippi Mud Pie. This guide to chocolate explores its history, from the Mayans discovery of the bean to the present day. No other food comes close to chocolate for sheer indulgence, and this book will show you how to choose it, melt it, cook with it and enjoy it over and over again in these delectable recipes. Choices will be hard to make, but you might want to start with Chocolate Profiteroles, Chocolate Lemon Tart or Chocolate Sorbet with Red Fruits. Or you could succumb to the infamous Death by Chocolate. With a guide to ingredients and cooking techniques that shows you how to temper, melt, drizzle, pipe, marble, curl, scroll, coat, grate and decorate with chocolate, outlined in step-by-step instructions, you are guaranteed great results every time.